Craig, Your example doesn't quite satisfy me. I've seen the alpha stand back and let his underlings do the dirty work, in humans AND dogs.
I think the word "institution" you bring out is important, because it illustrates that for a social pattern to be instituted, it requires intellectual affirmation and transferance to intellectual encoding. Humans are uniquely intellectual, and so their social patterns almost always includes this intellectual element. Bur for the distinction between social and intellectual patterning to remain meaningful, we really have to consider those commonalities between the alpha dog and the sargeant at arms. John On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Mammal motherhood is all about nuturing & a major component of nurturing > is-- > to use the buzz-word--"socialization" of the infant. > (Report card "citizenship" grade: "Works & plays well with others".) > But if you think of the 3rd level as the "Institutional Level", > then you're less likely to attribute it to rats & bees. > Consider the alpha male in a gorilla troop & the commander of a calvary > troop: > If you defy the alpha male, you get your butt kicked. If you defy the > commander, > you get thrown in the brig & the guards kick your butt. > If this were the only difference, they would be on the same level. > But IMHO Pirsig noticed something more; something to do with, possibly, > normative rule-governed behavior. > Craig > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
